Speakers: Sally Martin, Director, and Tim Kobie, Manager, Strategic Code Enforcement Initiatives, both of Cleveland Building and Housing Department; Ayonna Blue Donald, Vice President, Ohio Market, Enterprise Community Partners The … Continue reading Where Have All the (Affordable) Houses Gone?

Speakers: Donna Graham, Vice President, Revenue Cycle, MetroHealth Medical Center; Kinsey Jolliff, Principal, Health Policy & Payment Innovation, The MetroHealth System. Staffing shortages, rising expenses, supply chain issues and limited … Continue reading Financial Challenges of Healthcare

Speaker: Tom Sutton PhD, Director, Community Research Institute, Baldwin Wallace University Inflation, gas prices, guns violence abortion and democracy itself. All are on the ballot. The party that occupies the … Continue reading Midterm Elections: Meltdown, Referendum or Party Switching?

Speaker: Kristin Hall, Executive Director, Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District; Judy Huichun Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, CWRU Lake Erie is an asset of Ohio that is … Continue reading Water: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘til It’s Gone

Speaker: Bethia Burke, President, Cleveland-based Fund for our Economic Future; Jacob Duritsky, Vice President, Strategy & Research, Team Northeast Ohio (Team NEO) Studies show that labor shortages are still prevalent … Continue reading Labor Shortage: What’s the Future in NE Ohio and Beyond?

Speakers: Brian Hoffman, Esq., Executive Director, Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation; Patrick Kearns, Executive Director, The Refugee Response Normally, 3,000 immigrants come to Cleveland annually.  In 2019 there were … Continue reading Immigration, Refugees, DACA and the Future

Speakers: Mark Weber, Retired KSU Dean, Library Services, and Activist Leader of Jewish, Secular and Labor Organizations. Hatred of Jews, Muslims and any other group is wrong. How can we … Continue reading Anti-Semitism: Beliefs and Facts

Speakers: Darcy Freedman, PhD, Professor, CWRU School of MedicineJulie Johnson, CEO, The Hunger Network. Food insecurity has increased since the pandemic, with an estimated 226,000 people hungry in Cuyahoga County … Continue reading Food Insecurity Challenges & Solutions

Speaker: Sadeer Al-Kindi, MD, Cardiologist, University Hospitals. In the 1930s, banks began drawing red lines around neighborhoods that were at higher risk for defaulting on mortgage and business loans. Recent … Continue reading Impact of Redlining & Hospital Closures